How else to explain the disastrous marriage of AOL and Time Warner?
Quotebook: Utah Jazz President Frank Layden, explaining the success of his marriage to wife Barbara: "The reason we stayed together all these years is we go dancing.
She has even been open about her three-way marriage, happily explaining the origins of this ménage à trois when I interviewed her two years ago: while married to the father of her son Joel, now 15, she met a woman in a bar at which she was singing; Buika and her husband later "married" her at a family party, then all three parted ways.
The author of this bizarre response to 9/11 is Christopher Durang, that enfant terrible of the theater who, for more than 30 years ("Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You," "The Marriage of Bette and Boo"), has flouted all traditional boundaries of good taste and propriety in his loony assaults on contemporary culture.
Ozzy Osbourne is a sex addict, his rep said Wednesday, by way of explaining the crash of the rocker's marriage to Sharon Osbourne in May after a four-year affair went public. .
As theatrical as it seemed, he explained that the decision to stop the marriage of Honeywell and United Technologies with a bid of his own was prompted simply by industrial instinct.
After four decades of delivering his unique blend of anger, humor and despair to relatively limited audiences, the man who gave us such unsettling fare as "Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You" and "The Marriage of Bette and Boo" has widened his reach.
The scene in the final hour, when she and Eric take Matt and Julie out for dinner to explain the challenges of marriage, was heartbreaking for Eric's blindness to his own hypocrisy.
The objection continues that the contractual account cannot explain the point of marriage.
The virtue approach analyzes marriage in terms of the dispositions it cultivates, an approach which, by its reference to emotional states, promises to explain the relevance of marriage to love.
